Archive for December 2006
Doherty v Brimingham City Council & Anr, CA, 21/12/2006
The Appellant traveller unsuccessfully appealed a possession order against him as a challenge pursuant to Art.8 of the European Convention on Human Rights was not open to him on the facts of the case.
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Broadway Investments Hackney Ltd v Grant [2006] EWCA Civ 1709 (20 December 2006)
A lease which required the use of the lower part of premises for business purposes and no other, whilst the top part was permitted for residential, amounted to a business tenancy within the meaning of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, section 23(1).
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Goodchild v Bradbury & Ors [2006] EWCA Civ 1868 (15 December 2006)
A transfer of land by an elderly great uncle to his great nephew was set aside as it could not be shown that full, free and informed consideration had been given but rather the transfer was held to be the result of undue influence.
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Richmond Court (Swansea) Ltd v Williams [2006] EWCA Civ 1719 (14 December 2006)
Where a landlord refused to install a stair lift in a block of residential flats, he was not discriminating against the disabled tenant as his reasons for refusing did not relate to her disability.
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Reichman & Anor v Beveridge & Anor [2006] EWCA Civ 1659 (13 December 2006)
The Appellant tenant was unsuccessful in his appeal against a decision that his landlords were under no duty to mitigate their loss when seeking to recover rent arrears, where the tenant had failed to pay rent due under a lease and had abandoned the demised premises.
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Wilcox v Tait [2006] EWCA Civ 1867 (13 December 2006)
Equitable accounting should more properly should be carried out after sale of a property where a declaration as to joint beneficial interests had been made.
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